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After Linnreus followed a considerable number of detached 
notices of these Insects, by various writers of France, Germany, 
and Sweden, without adding much to our knowledge of them : 
as Geoffroy, Wohlfarht, Fischer, Leske, Ross, Villens, Sultzer, 
Frisch, Modeer, &c. 
An entomologist of great eminence, J. C. Fabricius, of Kiel, 
in Holstein, is the next we have to notice as a writer on this sub¬ 
ject. He was a pupil of Linnaeus, and indefatigable in describing 
and adding to the enumerations of his great master, the Insects 
which the numerous collections and cabinets of Europe afforded, 
and by which he has vastly increased the numbers described by 
his predecessor, and his descriptions and nomenclature are often 
truly excellent. In his last work the Systema Entomologia Emen - 
data , he has, however, obscured this genus in a way that it will 
not be easy to unravel. He has given an Oestrus Bovis, with a 
description, nearly corresponding to the true one, alls immaculatis, 
&c. but immediately refers to the Linnean Bovis alls Ynaculatis , 
and continues the Linnean references. 
Under the title of Equi, he has described the Oe. Veterinus, 
under which the Hasmorrhoidalis is introduced as a variety (3 ; so 
that a description of our common Oe. Equi, is altogether omitted 
as a species, at the same time the variety of it, (3, of my account, 
and of the Linnean Fauna Suecica , is presented as a distinct spe¬ 
cies, under the strange title of Oe. Vituli, as though calves were 
subject to them ; and beneath it again is a reference to the true 
Equi of Geoffrey, 
The commission of errors like these, in a genus whose species 
had been more numerous, might have defied the possibility of 
detection, whilst the patient investigator might endeavour to 
understand them with unavailing labour. Nor can I observe 
without regret, in this respectable work, such a direct abuse of 
the intention of synonyma, which far from assisting as auxiliaries 
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